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Q: How do I burn a Blu-ray using pre-existing AC-3 audio file?

I'm just wondering what the best settings / option are for compressing the video and burning a Blu-ray from a file exported from FCPX as a master file that used a pre-existing AC-3 audio file. My sound mixer supplied the 5.1 ac-3 audio file. I brought that file into FCPX, set the settings for surround, and it outputted an mov file with 6 channels. As it should be. I still need to compress the video for Blu-ray, but the audio is already compressed and ac-3. Can I compress and burn a Blu-ray through Compressor without recompressing the ac-3 file? Do I set the audio to Target System "Generic AC-3" or do I simply not drop in any audio compression settings at all and only the H.264 for video?

 

Thanks in advance!

Final Cut Pro X, OS X Yosemite (10.10.3)

Posted on Mar 9, 2016 12:00 PM

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Q: How do I burn a Blu-ray using pre-existing AC-3 audio file?

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  • by BenB,

    BenB BenB Mar 30, 2016 2:06 PM in response to halmasonberg
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    Mar 30, 2016 2:06 PM in response to halmasonberg

    If you have this all in an FCPX Project timeline, do a Send To Compressor command.  Drop the whole "Create Blu-Ray" preset group on to it, set Audio for 5.1.  You shouldn't have any issues.  You won't notice any AC03 audio re-encode issues.